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The TKPOTD for nine years ago today was an exercise in pointage, laughery, and mockification directed at Brett Kimberlin as both The Deadbeat Pro-Se Kimberlin and The Deadbeat Performer Kimberlin.
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And the hits just keep on comin’ for the Pro Se Weekend Special …
There’s somethin’ happenin’ here.
What it is ain’t exactly clear.
There’s a man with a blog over there
A’tellin’ me I got to beware.
I think it’s time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
There’re battle lines being drawn.
I’m right, and they’re all wrong.
Evil bloggers speakin’ their minds,
A’causin’ so much resistance for my kind.
Time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
What a field day for a creep!
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
I can pile the suits real deep.
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
Filing writs and motions and pleas,
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
Bringing bloggers right to their knees.
(Hmm, hmm, hmm)
Time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
Paranoia strikes deep.
Into you life it will creep.
It starts when you’re always afraid.
Step out of line, parole officers come and take you away.
Time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
Time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
Time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
Time to file pro se—I’m no clown.
Everybody look what’s goin’ down.
(I can hardly wait for Op-Critical’s cover version.)
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Pro-Se and Performer—it’s hard to say which was the greater failure.
Oh, one more thing … neither of my Springfields was not used on any buffaloes in the creation of that parody.
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(We had trouble with the audio for our theme music, so the start of the program is a bit rough.
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Although it has lain fallow for over four years now, on of Team Kimberlin’s principal PR organs was the Breitbart Unmasked website. The site’s occasional editor Bill Schmalfeldt call it his “prime source for news, hearsay, lies and innuendo. Oh, yeah. Smears, too!” Eight years ago today BU published a long defamatory screed attacking Aaron Walker, and it was full of hearsay, lies, innuendo, and smears. And sealed court discovery, too!
That’s only the opening paragraph. The Gentle Reader can find the whole post still active on the BU website.
Here’s Bill Schmalfeldt’s concern troll comment to the post.
It wasn’t Aaron Walker’s blog about free speech and pictures of Muhammed that drew Brett Kimberlin’s interest and ire. It was Aaron’s pro bono legal assistance to a left-wing blogger who Kimberlin had sued for defamation.
It’s was Kimberlin’s attacks on Aaron’s First Amendment rights that backfired and drew the attention of the blogosphere to past and current activities.
We wound up discussing Blue Mountain coffee during last night’s podcast, and my podcasting partner Dianna Deeley heartily recommended this brand. She had received some as a Christmas gift and is greatly enjoying it.
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Brett Kimberlin’s lawfare campaign has been a failed attempt to use the courts to suppress the First Amendment rights of the those of us who have written about his past and present activities. In fact, this blog took no notice of him until his attacks on blogger Aaron Walker. Ten years ago today, I took a look at how Kimberlin’s lawfare was going with this post titled Dread Pirate #BrettKimberlin and Reputation Management.
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So what’s the result of a year of TDPK’s brass knuckles reputation management via lawfare? When one googles him, this is the result.
He’s “best known as the perpetrator of the Speedway bombings in 1978.”
The truth is still out there.
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And now, the Supreme Court has denied Kimberlin’s petition seeking to set aside his bombing conviction.
The truth is still out there.
Sometimes, a blog’s comments are better than the post itself. That was true for the TKPOTD from seven years ago today.
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Last week was a pretty good week. Aaron Walker’s motions to dismiss and for summary judgment were granted in the Kimberlin v. Most of the Universe, et al. RICO Retread LOLsuit. The remaining motions in the case will be heard on 10 March. It wouldn’t surprise me if the case is completely over after that hearing.
Judge Mason threw out all of the claims against Aaron on two grounds. First, he granted summary judgment on all the claims except part of the invasion of privacy nonsense on the basis of res judicata. He also granted summary judgment on the same bases as his motions to dismiss the six defendants who were dismissed back in September. Those includes failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted and lack of personal jurisdiction for out-of-state defendants. (The court might have had personal jurisdiction over Aaron based on the battery claim, but that was wiped out by res judicata.)
The judge also found that The Dread Pro-Se Kimberlin had failed to state a claim upon which relief can be granted concerning the privacy torts TDPK alleged that weren’t covered by res judicata.
The net of this is that TDPK probably has no case left. Each of the other out-of-state defendants can point to rulings for the seven defendants who have been dismissed and say, “Me too!” Ali Akbar and I can point to Aaron’s ruling concerning res judicata and say, “Us too!” (But Ali may not have to bother because TDPK hasn’t served him.)
It will be interesting to see how Team Kimberlin spins out of control between now and 10 March.
Stay tuned.
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Several commenters responded with limericks.
Charles Hudson—
There once was a bomber from Speedway,
who whined to the courts for more leeway.
His motions were tossed,
and his cases were lost,
for his fantasy was but a …
… I can’t quite figure out that last word. Someone help me out here.
Vigilans Vindex—
There once was a bomber from Speedway,
who whined to the courts for more leeway.
His motions were tossed,
and his cases were lost,
So now he’s a case for the DA.
BusPassOffice—
And his good friend was a child pornographer
made stories without a photographer
but he preyed on small young boys
with nothing more than filthy noise
And then ran from the gathering stenographers
AJ Fornicarius Hoc—
There once was a bomber from Speedway,
who whined to the courts for more leeway.
His motions were tossed,
and his cases were lost,
But sanctions? Not likely will he pay.
Heh.
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Between the time I will spend working in a lab, teaching a class, and dealing with a legal matter, there won’t be much left over for blogging.
The saga of Twitter’s flagging of astronomy posts as “sensitive” continues. Twitter’s Sensitive media policy (https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/media-policy, downloaded on 30 December, 2022) (lowercase letters in the orignal) states
If you don’t mark your media as sensitive, we will do so manually if your content is reported for review.
Assuming that statement is truthful, that means someone or something (eg., an algorithm) is reporting the posts. I don’t believe that any reasonable observer can honestly believe these astronomy posts contain media “that is excessively gory” or “violent or adult content” or that that the posts to which my tweets link are in way “hateful.” Once was a mistake. Twice was a coincidence. Two weeks of it is enemy action.
I believe that I am being subjected to targeted abuse.
Stacy McCain, Dianna Deeley, and I are taking New Year’s Eve off, but you can troll through our archives via the link below.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Blogging has been light for the past couple of weeks as I’ve been hustling to clean up some odds and ends of a work project on top of the usual year end business. Today will be consumed with hand making some custom electrical parts for a test fixture.
I’m looking forward to using some of the six weeks of time off I’ve accrued during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
I think so, Brain … but if we can’t take over the world, could we settle for Twitter?
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